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Adrien Broner withdraws from fight vs. Omar Figueroa citing mental health
11:35 AM ET Mike CoppingerESPN Adrien Broner withdrew from Saturday’s junior welterweight fight vs. Omar Figueroa citing the need to address his mental health, he announced on Instagram. Sergey Lipinets will replace Broner in the PBC on Showtime main event in Hollywood, Fla., sources told ESPN. This is the second time a fight between Broner …
Canelo Álvarez stops Billy Joe Saunders to unify titles before vast crowd in Texas | Boxing
The unforgiving nature of boxing was seen in the white towel that Billy Joe Saunders draped around his head as he walked slowly towards a waiting ambulance late on Saturday night in Arlington, Texas. He then used the towel to cover his bruised and swollen face. Twenty minutes earlier, Saunders had cut a similarly forlorn …
Jake Paul destroys Ben Askren in first-round knockout
Jake Paul wasn’t facing Nate Robinson this time, but a decorated MMA fighter, and the result was the same. Paul, a YouTube sensation, knocked out Ben Askren in the first round of their Saturday night pay-per-view cruiserweight bout at Mercedes-Benz Stadium in Atlanta with a straight right hand to the head. The Triller Fight Club …
Henry Maske back in the boxing ring
The technology model of the company founded in 2018 is a novelty for boxing. For the first time, athletes and coaches receive individual information on training performance. In addition, they receive all parameters relating to punch behavior, punch speeds, variability and punch force. Through the entire training analysis down to the individual impact values and …
Marvelous Marvin Hagler, boxing legend and former undisputed champ, dead at 66
Marvelous Marvin Hagler, the boxing legend who was the undisputed middleweight champion from 1980 to 1987 and recorded 52 knockouts during his career, has died, his wife announced Saturday. He was 66. His wife, Kay G. Hagler, made the announcement on Facebook. “I am sorry to make a very sad announcement. Today unfortunately my beloved …
BREAKING NEWS: Crawley to go into Tier 4 from Boxing Day
The Health Secretary Matt Hancock has announced during a Downing Street news conference that Sussex is to enter Tier 4 from 1 minute past midnight on Boxing Day. In his address he urged the public to ‘keep our resolve’. Mr Hancock said that cases have risen across the country by 57% in the last week …
Anthony Joshua removes doubt with Kubrat Pulev win, but is he ready for Tyson Fury?
Anthony Joshua did not let his mind wander ahead of his bout against Kubrat Pulev. He’d tripped over hurdles before, failing to anchor himself in the present. But all week he refused to look beyond Pulev, and that unwavering focus led him to a ninth-round stoppage Saturday in front of 1,000 fans at the SSE …
Errol Spence Jr. vs. Danny Garcia fight results: Live boxing updates, scorecard, start time, undercard
Welterweight supremacy is on the line on Saturday night in Arlington, Texas, when unified champion Errol Spence Jr. takes on Danny Garcia in the main event of a Fox PPV. It will be Spence’s (26-0, 21 KOs) first fight since the horrific car crash in October 2019 when he managed to escape largely unscathed. For …
Teofimo Lopez upsets Vasiliy Lomachenko to become youngest four-belt champion
1:10 AM ET Steve KimESPN We have a new lightweight king. At just 23 years old, Teofimo Lopez became the undisputed lightweight champion of the world by dethroning Vasiliy Lomachenko over 12 tense rounds inside the MGM Grand Conference Center in Las Vegas on Saturday night. Lopez becomes the youngest fighter to become a four-belt …